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Charlie Bress said:
This is for a system running XP Home and is part of a home
network.
A while ago the hard drive crashed and it was restored using
the
vendor's restore disk.
Now when starting up, there is a request to "log on to
windows".
This is new. There is no password to enter and entering
cancel ( I
think that what was used) lets everything to proceed.
How can this request for logon be eliminated?
Charlie
Here are two options.
1. Download and install TweakUI from Microsoft. TweakUI is
available here.
Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Direct Download of TweakUI
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe
Once the program is installed, go to Start -> All Programs ->
Powertoys for Windows XP -> TweakUI.
Click the + sign next to Logon in the left hand column.
Click on Autologon.
In the right hand pane, put a check mark in the box next to
"Logon automatically at system startup".
Enter the name of your user account in the User Name box.
Hit the Set Password button and enter your password twice.
Note: You should skip this step if your account has a blank
password.
Click OK to close TweakUI.
Restart your computer to see if you get the desired results.
2. Go to Start -> Run.
Copy and paste the following into the Open box:
control userpasswords2
Click OK.
In the "Users for this computer" box, click on the account you
want to have logged on automatically.
Uncheck "Users must enter a user name and password to use this
computer".
Click OK.
In the box that pops up, make sure the account you clicked on
earlier is entered next to User Name.
Enter your password twice.
Note: You can leave the password box blank if the account does
not have a password.
Click OK.
Reboot to see if you get the desired results.
For more info take a look here,
Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP
Configure Windows XP to Automatically Login
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm
Good luck
Nepatsfan
